La Gazzetta is a comic opera by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, satirising the influence of newspapers on people's lives. The libretto has recently been adapted to modern society. It was a great sucess in its time, but is now practically forgotten. Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 — November 13, 1868) was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. ...

The plot surrounds the story of a man, Don Pomponio Storione, who travels the world in search of a husband for his daughter, putting adds in the newspapers. He arrives in a city, and after a series of ridiculously inadequate pretendants, such as the Quacker Monsu Traversen or the waiter at the hotel, who end usually end up beating poor Pomponio, he finally resigns to let his daughter marry her lover, the only pretendant he seems to consider innapropriate.